New Order - Music Complete
2 Stars
Clumsy, throwaway and out of touch. ‘Music Complete’ serves to dilute New Order’s output.
25th September 2015
Album Reviews
Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie
3 Stars
This deadly work could’ve forced an apocalypse if delivered with more conviction.
25th September 2015
Disclosure - Caracal
3 Stars
The duo are submerged in style and an A‑list cast to the point where they forget how to pen pop songs.
25th September 2015
Kurt Vile - b’lieve i’m goin down
4 Stars
His most open, captivating work to date.
25th September 2015
Youth Lagoon - Savage Hills Ballroom
4 Stars
Trevor Powers has nothing to hide on his latest work.
25th September 2015
Chvrches - Every Open Eye
5 Stars
‘Every Open Eye’ is a second album even better than the first.
25th September 2015
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
4 Stars
In a world where the biggest pop acts construct their own universe, hers could be the most distinct and untouchable.
21st September 2015
Battles - La Di Da Di
4 Stars
A stubborn embracing of all the weird things that make up this unique trio.
18th September 2015
Meat Wave - Delusion Moon
3 Stars
In-your-face in all the right places.
18th September 2015
Baio - The Names
4 Stars
Baio combines reckless abandon with infectious introspection.
18th September 2015
Darwin Deez - Double Down
3 Stars
An attempt at trying to recapture that turn of the decade magic.
18th September 2015
Beirut - No No No
3 Stars
A familiar and easy-going album.
11th September 2015
Low - Ones and Sixes
3 Stars
‘Ones and Sixes’ sounds a little too familiar, but the trio are playing to their strengths.
11th September 2015
Slayer - Repentless
4 Stars
Slayer still know how to pack a devastating punch.
11th September 2015
The View - Ropewalk
2 Stars
The band sound weirdly subdued throughout.
11th September 2015
Micachu and the Shapes - Good Sad Happy Bad
3 Stars
‘Good Sad Happy Bad’ makes about as much sense as trying to chop down a tree with a satsuma.
11th September 2015
Kwabs - Love + War
2 Stars
Much of this album feels too polite and too pedestrian.
11th September 2015
Bring Me The Horizon - That’s The Spirit
4 Stars
A set of huge songs that’ll cement Bring Me’s place at the top of rock’s ranks.
11th September 2015
FIDLAR - Too
5 Stars
A big, dumb-smart, happy-sad, universally-specific beast of a record.
4th September 2015
Ane Brun - When I’m Free
4 Stars
An album of empowerment and regained vitality.
4th September 2015
Public Image Ltd - What the World Needs Now…
3 Stars
Lydon remains part pantomime, part snarling truth sayer.
4th September 2015
The Libertines - Anthems for Doomed Youth
3 Stars
A mostly successful and far more mature record.
4th September 2015
Miley Cyrus - Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
3 Stars
A star-spangled ride through sugary art-pop, space-rock and the absurd.
3rd September 2015
Beach House - Depression Cherry
3 Stars
An odd outlier in an otherwise brilliant back-catalogue.
28th August 2015
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